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clownfish75
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11-Apr-2007 23:58
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World needs coal to cover demand Global power demand cannot be met without continued use of coal, the chairman of Swedish utility Vattenfall said in an interview with German weekly newspaper "Die Zeit", to be published Thursday. Lars Josefsson said the way forward was to support the development of clean coal technology. "We have to commercialize the clean coal-fired power plant as soon as possible and make it available to global generators," he said. Josefsson, who acts as an energy advisor to the German government under Chancellor Angela Merkel, said the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in June could be the breakthrough. The Swedish manager said common research initiates between US and Europe for clean coal units could unit differing views on climate change. There is no alternative to CO2 sequestration and underground storage of CO2, he added. "If that doesn't work, we have a real problem. Then we would have to build the dams higher," he told the newspaper. For simliar news, request a free trial to International Coal Report at http://www.platts.com/Request%20More%20Information/index.xml?src=story |
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